2A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NEWSINBRIEF WEDNESDAY,SEPT.26,2001 CAMPUS T-shirts honoring firefighters to be sold Friday and Sunday The Douglas County Sheriff's Department and Lawrence firefighters will be selling T-shirts in Lawrence on Friday and Sunday, said Sgt. Doug Woods of the sheriff's department. The proceeds from the shirt sales will benefit families of firefighters and law enforcement officials who worked in the rescue efforts after the World Trade Center attacks. The T-shirts cost $10 for sizes medium to extra-large. Extra-exlarge shirts are $12. They will be available at 6 p.m. Friday at the Lawrence High School football game at Haskell Stadium, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Hobby Lobby parking lot, 1801 W. 23rd St. — Courtney Craigmile Gamma Phi Beta T-shirt sale to benefit Red Cross efforts Gamma Phi Beta sorority will be selling T-shirts this week to help the American Red Cross' recovery efforts in New York City and Washington, D.C. The T-shirts are white and feature a quote from President Bush and a Jayhawk holding an American flag. The quote says, "A terrorist attack designed to tear us apart has instead bound us together as a nation." The shirts, available in large and extra large, will be sold from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday and Friday in front of Wescoe Hall. Megan Knop, Overland Park junior and Gamma Phi Beta member, said the sorority ordered 435 T-shirts, and would order more if all were sold. — Jeremy Clarkson Hemenway dismissed from serving on fraud case jury Chancellor Robert Hemenway will not serve as a juror in a pending Medicare fraud case. Hemenway reported for jury selection yesterday at the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., and was released at 3:30 p.m. following questions posed by attorneys and District Judge Kathryn Vratil. Gay Lynn Clock, the chancellor's secretary, said she was excited to hear the news. "Back to University business," Clock said. LAWRENCE Paul Smith City commission discusses property in private session Mayor Mike Rundle called a 15-minute recess last night so the commissioners could enter an executive session to discuss the possible acquisition of property. During the executive session, the commissioners and Debbie Van Saun, assistant city manager, left the City Commission Meeting Room to keep terms and conditions of a possible acquisition confidential. When the Commission reconvened, Rundle said the Commission had given Van Saun appropriate direction regarding the possible acquisition. The Kansas' Open Meetings Act allows the Commission to have such a private session. Courtney Craigmile America prepares for recession and 'war unlike any in history' NATION&WORLD The Associated Press NEWYORK — Rarely in the history of conflict have such high costs added up so quickly. Just two weeks after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, airlines plan more than 80,000 layoffs, the world appears poised for recession and some congressional estimates say the United States could need an additional $100 billion for the war against terror and related costs. A conflict could set the global economy back by $160 billion this year, according to one private economic forecasting company. War has in the past helped to strengthen weak economies like the one America is mired in. World War II pulled the United States out of the Depression as industry mobilized to build warplanes and other military hardware. The Vietnam War spurred an economic boom in the 1960s. But as President Bush has repeatedly stressed, this will be a war unlike any in history. There likely won't be any full-scale deployments of ground troops or massive arms buildup to track down Osama bin Laden, the No.1 suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Some New Yorkers want mayor to stay past Dec.31 end of term The Associated Press NEWYORK—With smoke still rising from the World Trade Center ruins, New Yorkers chose their candidates for mayor yesterday in primaries thrown into turmoil by the disaster and the possibility that Rudolph Giuliani may try to stay on to steer the city through its crisis. The Republican mayor is barred by law from running for a third term this fall, and he has not announced his plans. But his popularity has soared since the Sept. 11 attack and some voters say he ought to stay on past Dec. 31, when his term is up. "The last thing the city needs is a change in government," said Fran Kane, a Democrat who said she would have voted for Giuliani if she could. Lorraine Fittipaldi, a Republican, cast a write-in vote for the mayor. "Even if they keep him for a year, I think he's been wonderful," she said. On a day of on-and-off rain, four Democrats and two Republicans sought their parties' nominations to move a step closer to the most prominent municipal job in the country. Fran Kane Democratic voter With at least 15,000 absentee ballots cast — and the possibility of a sizable write-in vote for Giuliani by Democratic or Republican voters — there was a chance the winners would not be known until the official count is completed next week. The winners of each primary meet Nov. 6. "The last thing the city needs is a change in government." The Democratic candidates -Public Advocate Mark Green, City Comptroller Alan Hevesi, City Council Speaker Peter Vallone and Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer all were seeking the 40 percent of the vote needed to win. Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul, and former Rep. Herman Badillo were on the ballot for the GOP nomination. If no one gets 40 percent, the two vote-getters advance to an Oct. 11 runoff. The primaries began Sept. 11 but were postponed within hours after two hijacked airliners brought down the trade center, burying thousands of people in the rubble. Votes cast by machine were thrown out. The candidates immediately suspended campaigning and only resumed making low-profile appearances over the weekend. Nine polling places were damaged or destroyed by the attack, and some voters were assigned different locations to cast ballots. Nurse charged with diluting, stealing patients' medications STATE TOPEKA—A Topeka nurse has been charged with diluting a patient's liquid pain medication and stealing another patient's pills at an Oskaloosa nursing home. Kinta Marie Hayes, 43, was charged Monday in Jefferson County District Court with one count of possession of OxyContin, two counts of adulterating a drug, one count of mistreatment of a dependent adult, one count of attempted mistreatment of an adult and one count of theft. The charges were a result of an investigation by Attorney General Carla Stovall's Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Division. Hayes posted $3,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 8. OxyContin, a slow-release narcotic prescribed for moderate to severe chronic pain, has been linked to more than 120 deaths nationwide. Cherly Thomas, regional director Hickory Pointe, said an internal review lead to the discovery of the alleged dilution of drugs. The care center notified the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, which brought in Stovall's office. Thomas said Hayes was no longer working at Hickory POinte but declined to discuss the circumstances of her departure. Hayes' case is the first case of diluted drugs in Kansas, said Mark Ohlmeier, a spokesman for Stovall. NATION Southern California wildfires claim home, force evacuations SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - Despite another day of scorching temperatures, firefighters gained ground yesterday on wildfires in Southern California, including 200-acre blaze that burned a home and forced the temporary evacuation of residents from 20 others. The fire erupted Monday and burned vegetation that had not been hit by fires in 30 years, said Jim Wilkins, an information officer with the U.S. Forest Service. He said the cause was undetermined. That fire was one of three to strike San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, during a hot spell across Southern California. Record high temperatures were recorded in several inland areas Monday and temperatures yesterday again reached above 100 degrees. Associated Press ON THE RECORD A 20 year-old KU student reported the theft of two JBIL Audio 12-inch speakers and 25 personal checks from a vehicle between 11:30 p.m. Sunday and 7:50 a.m. Monday in the 4500 block of Wimbledon Drive, according to a Lawrence police report. The speakers were valued at $400. The value of the checks was unknown. A 19-year-old KU student reported the theft of a Panasonic CD player, 150 CDs and two CD carrying cases from a vehicle between 10 p.m. Sunday and noon Monday in the 4500 block of Wimbledon Drive, according to a Lawrence police report. The items were valued at $2,540. ON CAMPUS Center for Community Outreach will have a "Helping Unite Generations" volunteer meeting at 8 tonight at Alcove B in the Kansas Union. Contact Julie Robinson at 312-3428. Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a University forum from noon to 1 p.m. today at the ECM building, 1204 Oread Ave., one block north of the Kansas Union. The forum will be about University Governance. Contact Thad Holcombe 843-4933. - Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) is sponsoring a workshop entitled "How to Survive the J-School" at 10 ontion at room 100 in Stauffer-Flint Hall. Contact Kara Ryckman at kryckman@ku.edu. Icthus will meet at 8 tonight at the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union. Contact Marietta Liebengood at 979-1353. OAKS, the nontraditional students organization, will have a brown bag lunch from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. today at Alcove in the Kansas Union, Contact Joan Winston at 864-7317. KU Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Frontier Room in the Burge Union. Contact Atesh Shelovre at 749-3934. The Tae Kwon Do club will meet from 6:30 to 8tonight at 207 Robinson Center. Contact Greg Isaac at 749-4649. ■ Wednesday Night Worship (with DP) will meet at 9 tonight at Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall. Contact Seth at 312-1363. 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